EU Directive 2002/96/EC on WEEE (Waste Electrical & Electronic Equipment) and RoHS (Restriction of the use of certain Hazardous Substances).

The European Union's Directive on Restriction of the use of certain Hazardous Substances in electrical and electronic equipment (RoHS) defines each of 10 categories of electrical and electronic equipment in Annex 1. Category 9 is defined as follows:

• Monitoring and control instruments
• Smoke detector
• Heating regulators
• Thermostats
• Measuring, weighing, or adjusting appliances for household or as laboratory equipment
• Other monitoring and control instruments used in industrial installations (e.g. in control panels).

The RoHS Directive defines the scope of restrictions in Article 2 as follows:

"1. Without prejudice to Article 6, this Directive shall apply to electrical and electronic equipment falling under the categories 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 10 set out in Annex IA to Directive No 2002/96/EC (WEEE) and to electric light bulbs, and luminaries in households."

DAQ and Control products are supplied as Monitoring and Control instruments and as such fall within category 9 of the EU directive 2002/96/EC and so are excluded from restrictions under the scope of the RoHS Directive.

The Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment Directive is intended to reduce the amount of harmful substances that are added to the environment by the inappropriate disposal of these products through municipal waste.

Some of the materials contained in electrical and electronic products can damage the environment and are potentially hazardous to human health; for this reason the products are marked with the crossed out wheelie bin symbol which indicates that they must not be disposed of via unsorted municipal waste.

Adept Scientific have arranged a means for our customers to have products that have reached the end of their useful life safely recycled. We encourage domestic customers to contact us at the end of the product's life to return their purchase to us for recycling. Similarly if you are a commercial customer Adept Scientific will accept waste electrical and electronic product for recycling as per Article 9 of the WEEE Directive.

Please contact us on +44 (0) 1462 480055 or email info@adeptscience.co.uk and we will advise on the process for returning these waste products so we can all contribute to the safe recycling of these materials.